Shouldn't be part of the 'Blood' series

xenalia said:
For god's sake, do some research before raging about how you hate CLAMP's involvement in Blood series because they aren't capable for dark storyline. CLAMP's works aren't only CCS, Chobits or Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Their early works like X, Tokyo Babylon and RG-Veda are dark and gore enough to satisfy any sadistic viewer.

If people really want a carbon copy of Blood+, they should rewatch it instead of moaning about how the first ep of new installment doesn't resemble Blood+

Fai said:

I have no problems with CLAMP. I LOVE Clamp works.(and lol@you calling TRC "not dark"...its has one of the most complex and messed up character casts in the whole animeverse)

xenalia said:

I'm a fan of CLAMP's early works before their manga were adapted into anime. TRC isn't dark enough if compared with their classics. Ok, the twisted plots are there but it's lack of the cruelty CLAMP often put in. Before going down light-hearted route since Magic Knight Rayearth, it was common to see some happy-go-lucky characters turned evil and ripped their comrade's internal organs out or some-good-guy-look-alike mercilessly betrayed their friends in the most cruel way in their works.

I watch Blood-C with hope CLAMP will bring their old sadistic side back.I missed the old CLAMP I like in TB and RG-Veda. I will surely join bashing bandwagon if Blood-C sucks but ep1 is too early to tell. I'm irritated with some ppl rant about how they hate CLAMP working for Blood series because CLAMP=unable to do dark story while they never know what made CLAMP famous before CSS and they just watched only EP1.

DriftRS said:
Ok, firstly, the episode wasn't bad, it just wasn't Blood. Blood and Blood+ were about fairly realistic characters stuck in fairly extreme circumstances. They were about the mystery of the situation, with a bit of combat, but mostly dark dramas about the characters and how they come to terms with whats happening around them. NONE of which Clamp is any good at. Here's what was done wrongly:

The op is full of fan service giving the show the wrong feeling to begin with. It seems they couldn't decide whether to go with the schoolgirl look or the teacher look for saya, so they chose both. Everyone has a very typical anime look, the girls are pretty, the guys are girly, all wrapped up in Clamps unrealistic style. For a bunch of women, Clamp really likes trying to appeal to the male audience, and it detracts from the dark realistic tone the Blood series has had untill now.

Blood+ was never about the combat, infact there was very little fighting in it. Saya wasn't some sort of superhero, or klumsy twit, her class wasn't made up of a bunch of cliche's, and her teacher didn't look like someone dressed up to roleplay the sexual desires of her newest client.

Basicly, Clamp has 'Clampified' Blood/Blood+ and it's resulted in what so far feels like a cartoony highschool comedy about a girl with a father complex, and a bit of combat and blood thrown in as an afterthought. It's not bad for what it is, I'd probably watch it, but the links to Blood are pushing it, and if you can't either continue the original story, or bring something decent to the table to one-up it, why are you even trying? Just make it an original series and move on.